how good of a shooter are you?

shooting from a one knee down position with my elbow on the up knee about 3 to 4-1/2" @ 100. Sitting with both elbows on both knees 2 to 3" @ 100. With a variety of rifles, .300 Savage, .280 Remington, M24/47 8mm (those are scoped). with my M98, M48a, or an M93, about 4 to 6" @ 100 with military open sights. The smaller groups show up towards the end of the shooting session.
Great Question !! Shooting at 50 yards cuts those groups in half
 
I'm not very good but I could feed us for the most part. With my 1895G at 100 yds 5 to 6" with peeps & field positions. With my M1A & irons 3 to 4". With my old scoped Rem 700 BDL 30/06 and 180's I was shooting 1-1/8". Not so good with the AR yet, I can keep them on a paper plate so far but thats a load problem.

My 1895G is one ragged hole at 50 yds but I can only hold to about 5" at 100. I did collect two deer for two shots but at only 55 & 80 yds respectively. I think that counts good though because it is MOA (Minute of Animal!).
 
With my galil rifle slung up and standing i can hit a can at 100 yards. I can pop an 8 inch plate with my mauser 30-06 and 3-9 redfield everytime at 200 meters standing prone and sitting. I practice like that for hunting every once in a while i go out as far as 500 meters but i cannot always guarantee a hit i need more practice at that distance.
 
Standing, I can keep my .22 on the half-sized rimfire silhouettes roughly 7/10 times at 100 yards. Kneeling, 200 yards with my .45-70 is doable on a gatorade bottle with my hot loads and a known distance about 95% of the time. I usually am not shooting at paper when I'm shooting from the "normal" positions. I'm usually shooting at objects or animals. When hunting, my farthest shot on big game is 350 yards on a cow elk. That was a .30-06 and I was using a tree as a very stable monopod. I would say the farthest I can shoot reliable off-hand at big game is about 150 yards. Sit me down or let me kneel and give me a good .30 caliber rifle, and that's probably out there at 275 or 300. I never shoot prone because when I'm actually shooting elk, they usually don't give me time and I don't really want to lay down in fleece camo in nice wet snow. We'll see what happens when I learn to finally call coyotes in.
 
After reading everybody's post, I've come to the conclusion that I am not that good of a shot. :(

Oh well, I guess I need to go shoot more. :D
 
An old guy I know once said;

"I'm as good as I need to be, just not as good as last year though"

I'll stick with his dogma. :cool:
 
All I know is that I am better with a bow than I am with a gun. I can pretty much hit a nickel everytime with my bow at 30yds and a quarter at 40yds. I just realized this is a gun website :rolleyes: I got my first yote this year with this bow too.
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If I miss my shot/shots during archery season, I use either sticks or my backpack to get 1" groups at 100yds with one of my rifles. Without any kind of rest, I'm screwed. I drink too much coffee and hold my rifle like Barney Fife :D
 
I used to have access to a 1000 yrd range. I had a Olympic Arms PCR rifle with a heavy 20 in free floated barrel. There was a 24X24 in hanging steel plate at 575 yrds. With good hand loads I could put 4 out of 5 shots on the plate at 575 yrds unsupported. But that was 15 years ago and I know I could not do that unsupported today. The only range I have access to today is an indoor 25 yrd range. I can put 30 rds into a 1 in square at 25 rds but not very often.:( I now have a S&W 15 Sport AR, very accurate for the price. The 5R rifling does a great job.

I don't mind getting old but sure do hate getting decrepit!!!
 
I was good. It has been a very long time since I took out a rifle. I could hold offhand and get 5-6" at 100 yards, but when I would take a lean against a tree or other hand rest, cut that in half.

I trained myself to shoot offhand, and with a tree trunk, post, or branch. got good at it. With the tremor now, I doubt I could offhand very well now.
 
haw!

"The older I get, the better I was. "

I'm using that, kraigwy.

Not sure what the MOA is of my typical group. I'm trying off-hand without a sling per NRA small bore rules. 12" groups? I shoot an Appleseed AQT at expert/rifleman level (210+ out of 250), 4moa in position shooting, some of it timed.

I'm still pretty new and don't get to practice as much as I'd like.
 
Years ago I enjoyed shooting four positions at 50 feet using a 22 target rifle. I never was a fine rifle shot. Did a bit of trap shooting and if I could get 75 out of 100 it was fine with me. Also did a bit of hand gun shooting and was invited to goin a shooting team. When working up reloaded ammo for my rifles I shoot off a bench rest at a 100 yard . All of my varmint rifles shoot 3/4 inch groups or less. I m 76 years old and now I look for a place to rest my firearms when hunting. My best year was when I shot my 308 Norma Mag rifle three times to check the scope , then shot it three more times to drop a pronghorn, mule deer, and elk.
 
Here's an example of what my Ancshutz 1911 did 4 years ago at 50 yards, 40 shots prone with a 25X scope in competition. Holding an area about 3/8ths inch and trying to break my shots inside a 1/4 inch area. The inner "X" scoring ring's 0.39 inch in diameter.

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Biggest 5-shot group's about 1 MOA. Score was 400-40X, so with that "perfect" score, I was allowed to continue shooting. The USA record for Seniors (folks over 60 years old) at the time was 400-40X + 5X. My third shot broke a bit on the right side at the same time I felt a little wind gust from the left; it was about 1/16th inch out so I quit shooting. Had I shot ten Xes in the shootoff, I would have set a record.

Best done with a high power rifle was shooting a .308 Win. Palma rifle using aperture sights at 600 yards in a prone match. Twenty record shots into 7 inches; just under 1.2 MOA for a score of 200-14X. Tony Moon, guy from Australia shot a 200-16X winning the match. But I won the Long Range Aggregate comprising this match, one more at 600 then two at 1000. Tony came in second 2 points behind me.
 
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I know with my SKS and an improvised rest i am 2-3" off hand that opens a bit from a field position I can put the bullet where it needs to go on a small whitetail.
 
Remember, we are talking about standing, unsupported

Good enough to get the job done, but not good enough to really impress anyone.;)

Most shoooting is from standing or kneeling. With my DR200 and 4moa dot on the optic I can knock down bowling pins at 100yds around 75% of the time.

With my 10/22 and 3-9x Bushnell I can usually shoot 2" groups at 50yds.

With my M1A Scout and Trijicon 3-9 I can break clay pigeons at 100 yds with about every third round
 
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I'm actually a bit surprised I'm not having to wear some hip waders reading this. Some BS but mostly good answers.

Personaly the only long gun I check shooting off hand is my 12ga. slug gun as most of my shots are fired that way and shooting it from a bench changes POI. Generally sight it in at 50 yards off hand and will keep everything with in about 3".

I practice with my .22 at 50 yards on 2" spinners. I'd like to say I drill everyone but I'd be lying. More like 4 outta 5 if I take my time.

Anything over about 75 I use some sort of a rest when ever possible. Tree, fence post, bipod, shooting sticks, etc etc. Sometimes I'll kneel or sit. Those are the only prudent things to do.

LK
 
Not the greatest shot, good enough for deer; don't really care though. Gets me out of the house, get to shoot the bull with other shooters, pulling that trigger, hearing it go bang and making a hole in target. It's all good.:)
 
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